Tuesday, 15 January 2019

Photos of the part of the Granville going under the hammer

A big chunk of Pugin's Granville is going to be auctioned on Tuesday 5th February 2019, 11:00 am at The Clive Emson Conference CentreMaidstone, ME14 3JF

This is the link to the lot

Some pictures of it





















 For the very keen there are four interlinked pages of pages of more pictures

Here is the link to them

I took them a while ago so things may have changed a bit.

I used to go for a pint in there back in 1960/70 something or another, I seem to remember it has quite a considerable service charge attached to maintaining the whole building. Whether it would viable as a business in this day and age I don't really know.



The star item is the Pugin fireplace like the one in parliament, the photo is from the Wikipedia article Here is the link to it 

The motto on the coat of arms - frangas non flectes - You may break me, but you shall not bend me, has taken on a different meaning to the one intended. Let's hope it get straightened out.

Work wise today 


A very quiet day in the bookshop which I put down to BREXIT 

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